We also have the same system.
When the SIRS alert fires, the nurse contacts the physician.
If the sepsis alert fires both RN & MD will receive the alert when they open
the EMR.
If the patient is hemodynamically unstable they call a MET.
We developed an SBAR note just for sepsis documentation for
Hey Alexis, we use the St. John's Sepsis Alert here at the University of
Tennessee Medical Center.
We require the nurse to contact their Clinical Nurse Specialist or Clinical
Nurse Educator immediately when an alert has fired. The nurse and specialist
will decide whether or not to notify a
Yes, we use Cerner and the Sepsis alert. The expectation is that the nurses
notify the doctor within 30 minutes of receiving the alert 100% of the time.
One thing to watch for is that the alert links to a generic clinician notify
form, so the nurse needs to document why the physician was
Hi,
We have used Cerner since 2013 and have edited the algorithm to meet our needs.
The process is a discern alert for nursing that messages the information
needed to call the provider within 30 minutes. The RN documents that call in a
critical value form that fires from the alert. We have
Here are links to an article on weaning pressors in a septic patient.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899588514000240
The discontinuation dilemma: which vasopressor should be weaned first in
patients recovering from shock?
Kim H, Desa P, Avallone E, Weart T, Adkins D.
